Geothermal Activity at Dieng, Indonesia

Husband Pieter captured me standing near the Geothermal Activity at Dieng, Indonesia

They inject water under high pressure into the volcano and catch the steam for powering the turbines.

In a previous post I've mentioned the morning that we could not get passed a hooked off defect trailer from one of the Pertamina trucks. They had to transport the long pipes up the narrow mountain road, including hair pin bends. So this is WHY... see previous post below this one.

Said pipes for Pertamina were used for drilling wells...

The above info is from: Brief History of Dieng Geothermal Field just click link.

Geo Dipa Energi's geothermal well installation in Mount Dieng, Banjarnegara, Central Java, August 19. ANTARA/Anis Efizudin click link.

To me this photo was quite striking, showing a Javanese farmer carrying a heavy load on his yoke and then the geothermal activity in the back...

An informative video Visit Geothermal Dieng shows nicely from above how things look. Video goes on with a walk by the students, from Indonesian university Gadjah Mada and Dutch Technical University of Twente, walking to the Dieng Plateau where still ancient Hindu Temples are.

Hope this will help in understanding what this is about.

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HIGH in Mountains Hole in Road and Driving over Planks in Indonesia | post about Pertamina's defect trailer that needed to be hooked off from truck...

{Dieng Plateau Indonesia - Where We Worked} | post from 2012 about the Dieng Mountains

Sikidang Crater Dieng Plateau Indonesia

 

Husband Pieter at the active Sikidang Crater on May 9, 1983, with our guide, the Dutchman who'd lived for years in Indonesia.

YES it was completely OPEN at that time... safety issues were not heard of over there!

Now they have fenced it in somewhat.

Me with the camera capturing some special heat resistant shrubs!

Seeds seem to be able to survive a volcanic eruption and germinate afterwards...

Amazing that there still is any vegetation!

Short video from that 1st trip (for me) with info in English and Dutch with clickable points. 

Enjoy — best watched on YouTube for full information!

Each morning when driving up to the Dieng Plateau for work, as we saw the smoke come up, I said: 'That is the Devil's Kitchen...'

Lots of active craters and a bubbling lava pit...

There have been many eruptions and at the end of the 18th century, an entire village of 450 people got wiped out by such a lava slide; all but one died!

The sulphur smell varies on certain days but most of the time, it is not harmful.

Imagine falling down into the hot bubbling lava pit!

One would easily dissolve in that 'Devil's Soup'!

Hot and bubbly...

Very thick too, the Devil is not concerned about over-cooking his lava soup...

After almost seven years, I'm back in March 1990, at the Devil's cooking pot... Pieter too, he was behind the camera.

On November 19, 1996 we were there together with a mushroom friend from Australia who was visiting for business, he took a photo from both of us.

Nature is full of mysterious riddles...

Once more both of us visited there with our best friends from Dublin Georgia, who tagged along with us May 24 of 2001, and from Java they flew to Bali and back home while we worked and were home by June 17.

And so the devil cooks on...

A Lake in Dieng: Sikidang Crater Gives Different Beauty for The Plateau: Indonesia Tourism Video 1:20 min.

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Telaga Warna or Color Lake at Dieng in Indonesia

Telaga Warna or Color Lake at Dieng in Central Java, Indonesia

On May 9, 1983 we both were here and Pieter captured this photo with the two white swans 🦢🦢and a duck to the far right.

This is at a level of over 2,000 m! (6,662 ft)

It is actually a volcanic sulphur lake... 

Our guide was an older Dutchman who already lived for years in Indonesia.

Nowadays the lake is cleaned up and has walkways around and you can even climb to a certain height for overlooking the lake entirely.

Short video from overlook: Telaga Warna Lake, Dieng from Batu Pandang

Holding our video camera...

Back then Telaga Warna Lake looked rather overgrown...

Don't recall what the Dutchman was pointing at...

On November 19, 1996 we went back again with an Australian visitor...

Always a different view

The clouds are pulling in already and that happened most times around 11:00 AM so you had to really be an early bird.

When we drove up to work at 6:00 AM was the best time but most tourist buses came a lot later and thus far too late for the spectacular views.

Stay tuned for more from my very 1st trip to Indonesia...

Related link with short video: Telaga Warna (Sulphur lake), Dieng plateau

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